DFI CMS330-Q470ECRM Intel 10th Gen Core Micro-ATX Embedded Motherboard with Q470E Chipset, Dual LAN and Four Expansion Slots

A test cell that drives several serial instruments often also logs large result sets and shows them on more than one screen. The CMS330-Q470ECRM is the Q470E build of the CMS330 series, a Micro-ATX embedded motherboard that pairs 10 COM ports and two PCI slots with NVMe storage, up to 128 GB of DDR4 and triple display output.

Its LGA1200 socket takes 10th Gen Intel Core i3, i5, i7 and i9 processors, from the four-core i3-10100TE at 35 W to the 10-core i9-10900E at 65 W, plus Pentium G6400E and G6400TE and Celeron G5900E and G5900TE, with DFI rating the socket up to 125 W. Four DDR4 2933 MHz DIMM slots take up to 128 GB of non-ECC memory. Intel UHD Graphics drives VGA, DP++ and HDMI as three independent displays, and Intel AMT on the I219LM port supports remote management with Core i5, i7 and i9.

Storage covers an M.2 M-key socket for PCIe x4 Gen3 NVMe or SATA SSDs and four SATA 3.0 ports with RAID 0, 1, 5 and 10, and an M.2 E-key socket takes Wi-Fi. Expansion is a PCIe x16 Gen3 slot, a PCIe x4 Gen3 slot and two PCI slots. The rear panel has two USB 3.2 Gen 2, two USB 3.2 Gen 1 and two USB 2.0 Type-A ports, two GbE ports and an RS-232/422/485 DB-9, and headers add two USB 3.2 Gen 1, four USB 2.0, nine RS-232 ports and 16-bit digital I/O.

The CMS330-Q470ECRM runs from a standard ATX supply over 24-pin and 8-pin connectors across -5 to 65 °C, with optional TPM 2.0, a watchdog timer and CE, FCC and UKCA compliance. Where two displays, 64 GB and SATA storage are enough, the CMS330-H420EC keeps the same slots and serial ports on the H420E chipset.